Today I learnt how far I can go pre-breakfast before I hit the wall. I usually run pre-breakfast, so 5-10km is fairly normal, if it is steady state. I've been pushing up to mid distance and managed 16km last Sunday and 18km on Friday, so thought I'd give 21km a go today. I'm not 100% sure if it's just being pre-breakfast, or also the accumulation of mileage this week, but the 18-20km section was very hard today. It doesn't help that I live on a hill, so this particular route has a 100m incline between 18 and 19.5km.
I'm looking forward to being able to travel to flatter locations on Monday, so I can go somewhere where I can see how I feel at various points in the run and add loops, rather than have to decide to add/remove distance in the middle section. Also being able to go somewhere where falling over isn't going to be extremely painful. I fall over quite a lot (no feeling in one foot) so technical sections on rock (slate) aren't my favourite.
Otherwise, the run was reasonably good. Lots of flooded paths, so very wet feet (I jumped the first stream, seemed a bit pointless after the first random completely flooded long section of footpath). I tried a new footpath I've never done and saw some mini frogs. And I've learnt that I should eat before trying anything longer!